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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






2. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






3. Transit of Mercury.






4. March 17






5. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






6. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






7. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






8. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






9. Triple conjunction Mars






10. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






11. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






12. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






13. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






14. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






15. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






16. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






17. Triple conjunction Mars






18. Mercury occults Neptune.






19. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






20. Transit of Venus on June 11.






21. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






22. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






23. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






24. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






25. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






26. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






27. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






28. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






29. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






30. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






31. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






32. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






33. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






34. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






35. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






36. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






37. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






38. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






39. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






40. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






41. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






42. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






43. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






44. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






45. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






46. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






47. March 17






48. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






49. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






50. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.